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This is delicate, so (here's a theme) be careful. You'll also have to remove a connector from the fan. It's not hard to remove, but the two near the top are inside the uniframe body, so be careful. Remove the fan: There are four screws, two on the side, and two near the top. Very, very carefully remove both the screw from the radio mounting bracket and the radio connector. When you lift the base off, there's a very short radio wire you'll have to deal with next. Remove the round metal base: This has six tiny screws. This is easy if you're just slightly careful. Remove the round plastic base: This no longer twists to remove. You are on your own.Īlso: Mac Mini 2018: Cheat sheet TechRepublic Neither I, nor ZDNet, nor our parent company will take any responsibility for your actions. All of these were available in my iFixit Pro Tech toolkit, but you can certainly get basic Torx bits just about everywhere.ĭisclaimer: if you break your shiny new computer, don't come crying to me. I also used some tweezers and a little plastic prying tool. I only used three Torx bits, a T10, T6, and T5. The cage is screwed down onto the motherboard, and yes, you have to remove the motherboard.Īlso: Apple Mac Mini (2018) review: The little Mac that could To remove the RAM sticks, you have to remove the cage. RAM is hidden inside what's almost a Faraday cage of metal. That said, it's a tiresome and fiddly process that's not for the faint of heart.įirst off, the picture Apple showed of the RAM in their announcement is incredibly misleading.
The title of this article does tell it all. These hackers are using a simple trick to hide their Windows malware.Cutefish OS is the cutest Linux distribution you'll ever use.The best free tax software: Your filing options compared.Constant notifications are ruining your productivity.Ukrainian developers share stories from the war zone The best Wi-Fi router for your home office On windows, there is a little something of everything, with most of it sucking.Īll of which is to say, when you buy Apple you are not just laying for a machine.3G shutdown is underway: Check your devices now Re tooling: somehow there is the perfect version of everything in the Mac store.
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Not to mention using Windows for enterprise work: they add all that security and suddenly your computer fights you every step of the way.įor sure, Windows 10 is nice.
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And to borrow my computers system resources to help update other computers. And then there's Windows constantly asking for more and more of my personal data to improve "user experience". And further remember what a colossal pain it is to implement any sort of sane backup of OS. I also remember having to reinstall the operating system because Restore Points magically got erased while trying to recover.
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Re Apple's decline: I remember 2-3 years ago my Windows machine constantly failing to install "critical updates" over and over again. Anyways, it cost about twice what it would have cost to get the memory at the time I configured the system on the Apple web site. I doubt that they would gone along with that, and missed out on the very high margin on the cost of the memory chips.
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I should have asked if they would do the upgrade using memory chips that I supplied, but decided not to go that route. The labor costs were fine, but they really rip you off on the cost of the memory chips. Well, when I saw what would be needed to do the upgrade myself, taking just about everything out of the case, I decided to have Apple do it. I had read that memory was user upgradeable. Where Apple really got me, though, was that I selected 8GB of memory, intending to upgrade the memory myself if I needed it. Very happy to have found these Samsung drives, runs at the speed of an internal drive.
They’re NVMe drives…When I got the Mac Mini with an internal 256GB SSD, I knew that I’d be adding an external drive. The Samsung X5 SSD’s connected via TB3 are very fast.
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